Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark… — Elaine L. Jack Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost is manifested to men and women on the earth both as the power and as the gift of the… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Each of us knew that the journey to exaltation would be long, strenuous, and sometimes lonely, but we also knew that we… — Keith K. Hilbig Copy Share Image
“When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible,… — Liturgy Training Publications Copy Share Image
But later, by the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years was washed away, and a light… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
“How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?” Answer: “Because I am… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
“You were baptized?" "My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and… — Bill Hamon Copy Share Image
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“...Of the Hindu, of whatever caste, it may be said, as of the poet, nascitur non fit . His birth status is… — Lepel H. Griffin Copy Share Image
'We were created for eternal life by our Creator, we are called to it by the word of God, and we are… — Tikhon of Zadonsk Copy Share Image
Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
[Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“I have generally been denominated a Deist, the reality of which I never disputed, being conscious I am no Christian , except… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“The Second Council of Mileve (416) anath ematized all "who deny that new-born infants should be baptized immediately after birth." n The… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes silences are pregnant and sometimes not. It is hard to know what to make of the silence of much of the… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
“We have seen some gatekeeping or fencing-the-table language already beginning to rear its head in this context. One needed to be baptized… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
![“[Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word with its inherent divine power, a gracious water of life, a washing of regeneration. Through this divine efficacy of the Word the sacrament effects regeneration.” quote by Louis Berkhof](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c7c/louis-berkhof-46254_baptism_martin-luther-did-not-regard-the-water-i_2291223.jpg)
![“[Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and dead, into whom he did also command them to be baptized for the remission of sins.” quote by Irenaeus of Lyons](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d43/irenaeus-of-lyons-18423_baptism_peter-testified-to-the-jews-in-acts-2-th_376225.png)
![“You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have enumerated ten honors [it bestows]! For this reason we baptize even infants, though they are not defiled by [personal] sins, so that there may be given to them…” quote by Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3eb/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_adoption_you-see-how-many-are-the-benefits-of-bap_826448.jpg)
